Victoria Saramago
Victoria Saramago
Assistant Professor in Brazilian Literature; Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies Undergraduate Adviser
Office:
Wieboldt 226
Office Hours:
Tuesday and Thursday 1:30-2:30
Phone Number:
773-834-6406
Email:
[email protected]
Program(s): Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies
I hold a Ph.D. in Iberian and Latin American Cultures from Stanford University, as well as B.A. and M.A. degrees in Luso-Brazilian Literature and Portuguese Language from the State University of Rio de Janeiro. My research covers twentieth- and twenty-first century Latin American literature with a focus on Brazil. I work in the intersection of ecocriticism and fiction theory, and am interested in theoretical approaches to the representation of forest and rural areas in Latin American fiction.
My current book project, "Environmental Fictions: Mimesis and Deforestation in Latin America," analyzes the complex relationship between literary representation and environment in Latin American fiction by focusing on seven mid-twentieth-century regionalist novels by authors from Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Paraguay, and Peru. I propose that the environments where these novels are set are represented not only on the level of content but also through the literary form of the books themselves, and that, at the same time, these novels have participated in the creation of environmental imaginations whose impact on referential reality can be concretely perceived. Together, they establish what I call a two-way mimesis, through which perceptions on environmental realities affect literary representation as much as environments represented in fiction affect perceptions of and actions upon the environment.
I am also interested in studies of mimesis, theoretical approaches to fictional, autobiographical, and autofictional writings, and transatlantic uses of the term sertão (roughly translated as backlands) in lusophone cultures.
Assistant Professor in Brazilian Literature; Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies Undergraduate Adviser
Office:
Wieboldt 226
Office Hours:
Tuesday and Thursday 1:30-2:30
Phone Number:
773-834-6406
Email:
[email protected]
Program(s): Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Studies
I hold a Ph.D. in Iberian and Latin American Cultures from Stanford University, as well as B.A. and M.A. degrees in Luso-Brazilian Literature and Portuguese Language from the State University of Rio de Janeiro. My research covers twentieth- and twenty-first century Latin American literature with a focus on Brazil. I work in the intersection of ecocriticism and fiction theory, and am interested in theoretical approaches to the representation of forest and rural areas in Latin American fiction.
My current book project, "Environmental Fictions: Mimesis and Deforestation in Latin America," analyzes the complex relationship between literary representation and environment in Latin American fiction by focusing on seven mid-twentieth-century regionalist novels by authors from Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, Paraguay, and Peru. I propose that the environments where these novels are set are represented not only on the level of content but also through the literary form of the books themselves, and that, at the same time, these novels have participated in the creation of environmental imaginations whose impact on referential reality can be concretely perceived. Together, they establish what I call a two-way mimesis, through which perceptions on environmental realities affect literary representation as much as environments represented in fiction affect perceptions of and actions upon the environment.
I am also interested in studies of mimesis, theoretical approaches to fictional, autobiographical, and autofictional writings, and transatlantic uses of the term sertão (roughly translated as backlands) in lusophone cultures.
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